Sea ice Projects

This online project catalog has been developed to provide a tool to the arctic research community for discovering and sharing information about SEARCH-related projects supported through various funding agencies.

There are currently 126 projects contained within this database. The Project Catalog is under continual development and improvement as additional projects and user functionality is added. If you have any questions or suggestions about the SEARCH Project Catalog, please contact Helen Wiggins.

Below is an overview of all projects currently published in the catalog. The tabs above may be used to 'Filter' by keyword, region, or implementation category, or to run a full text 'Search' against all fields contained in the catalog. Full project details may be viewed by clicking on a project title in the table below.

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Title	PIs	Project Period	Related Programs
An Array of Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys to Directly Observe Turbulent Vertical Fluxes of Heat, Salt and Momentum as a Component of the Arctic Observing Network	Tim Stanton (stanton@nps.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
AON: Continuing the Beaufort Gyre Observing System to Document and Enhance Understanding Environmental Change in the Arctic	Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)	07/01/2009 - 06/30/2014	Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Proposal: An Interdisciplinary Monitoring Mooring in the Western Arctic Boundary Current: Climatic Forcing and Ecosystem Response	Robert Pickart (rpickart@whoi.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
Coordination, Data Management and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Programme	Ignatius Rigor (ignatius@apl.washington.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
UpTempO: Measuring the Upper Layer Temperature of the Arctic Ocean	Michael Steele (mas@apl.washington.edu)	06/15/2009 - 05/31/2012	Arctic Observing Network
A Change of Seasonality of the Upper Arctic Ocean in Response to Atmospheric and Sea Ice Forcing	Jiayan Yang (jyang@whoi.edu)	07/01/2009 - 06/30/2012	Arctic System Science Program
A Heat Budget Analysis of the Arctic Climate System	Michael Steele (mas@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2005 - 08/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
A Service Proposal to Examine Impacts of Sea Ice on Hydrographic Structure and Nutrients over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf during Summer	Rolf Sonnerup (rolf.sonnerup@noaa.gov)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Analysis and attribution of changes in Siberian hydroclimate and implications for the future	Judah Cohen (jcohen@aer.com)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
Autonomous Ice Mass Balance Buoys for an Arctic Observing Network	Jacqueline Richter-Menge (Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil)	07/01/2009 - 06/30/2010	Arctic Observing Network
Beaufort Gyre System: Flywheel of the Arctic	Andrey Proshutinsky (aproshutinsky@whoi.edu)	10/01/2004 - 09/30/2010	Arctic Observing Network
Benthic Ecosystem Response to Changing Ice Cover in the Bering Sea	Jackie Grebmeier (jgrebmei@umces.edu)	11/01/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Changing Seasonality of the Arctic: Alteration of Production Cycles and Trophic Linkages in Response to Changes in Sea Ice and Upper Ocean Physics	Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
Climate Response to Future Changes in Arctic Snow Cover and Sea Ice: A New Perspective from the High-Resolution NCAR CCSM3	Clara Deser (cdeser@ucar.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Collaborative Proposal: An interdisciplinary monitoring mooring in the western Arctic boundary current: Climatic forcing and ecosystem response	Robert Pickart (rpickart@whoi.edu)	08/15/2009 - 07/31/2014	Arctic Observing Network
Collaborative Research: A Modular Approach to Building an Arctic Observing System for the IPY and Beyond in the Switchyard Region of the Arctic Ocean	Peter Schlosser (schlosser@ldeo.columbia.edu)	04/01/2007 - 03/31/2011	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Collaborative Research: Development of a High-Resolution, Unstructured Grid, Finite-Volume Coupled Ice-Ocean Model for the Arctic Ocean		09/15/2007 - 08/31/2010	Arctic System Science Program
Collaborative Research: Syntheses of Sea Ice, Climate, and Human Systems in the Arctic and Subarctic (SYNICE)	Jeffery Rogers (rogers.21@osu.edu)	09/15/2006 - 08/31/2009	Arctic System Science Program Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Collaborative Research: Toward Reanalysis of the Arctic Climate System - Sea Ice and Ocean Reconstruction with Data Assimilation	Gleb Panteleev (gleb@iarc.uaf.edu)	08/22/2006 - 07/31/2009	Arctic System Science Program Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Coordination, Data Management, and Enhancement of the International Arctic Buoy Program (IABP)	Ignatius Rigor (ignatius@apl.washington.edu)	03/15/2006 - 02/28/2009	Arctic Observing Network
Dentrification and Global Change in Bering Sea Shelf Sediments	Allan Devol (devol@ocean.washington.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study
Design and Initialization of an Ice-tethered Array Contributing to the Arctic Observing Network	John Toole (jtoole@whoi.edu)	02/01/2006 - 01/31/2008	Arctic Observing Network
Developing an Understanding and Predictive Capability for the Interconnections Among Arctic Terrestrial, Atmospheric, and Marine Systems	Walter Oechel (oechel@sunstroke.sdsu.edu)	09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Flux and Transformation of Organic Carbon across the Eroding Coastline of Northern Alaska	Chien-Lu Ping (cping@alaska.edu)	09/15/2004 - 08/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
Greening of the Arctic - Synthesis and Models to Examine the Effects of Climate, Sea-ice, and Terrain on Circumpolar Vegetation Change	Howard Epstein (hee2b@virginia.edu)	09/01/2005 - 08/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Ice Mass Balance Buoy Network: Coordination with DAMOCLES	Jacqueline Richter-Menge (Jacqueline.A.Richter-Menge@usace.army.mil)	02/01/2007 - 01/31/2008	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Icebergs - International Ice Patrol			U.S. Coast Guard
Impacts of Sea Ice on the Hydrographic Structure, Nutrients, and Mesozooplankton over the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	George Hunt, Jr. (geohunt2@uw.edu)	04/01/2007 - 03/31/2009	Bering Ecosystem Study
Impacts of the Changing Seasonality of Wind-Driven Mixing on the Arctic System	Luc Rainville (rainville@apl.washington.edu)	08/01/2009 - 07/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
IPY: Halogen Chemistry and Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack (OASIS) Chemical Exchange During IPY	Paul Shepson (pshepson@purdue.edu)	10/01/2007 - 09/30/2010	International Polar Year Study of Environmental Arctic Change
IPY: Towards an Arctic Observing Network: An Array of Ice-Tethered Profilers to Sample the Upper Ocean Water Properties During the International Polar Year	John Toole (jtoole@whoi.edu)	02/01/2007 - 01/31/2011	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Mesozooplankton-microbial Food Web Interactions in a Climatically Changing Sea Ice Environment	Evelyn Sherr (sherre@oce.orst.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Nansen-Amundsen Basin Observational System (NABOS)	Igor Polyakov (igor@iarc.uaf.edu)	01/01/2002
Nitrogen Supply for New Production and its Relation to Climatic Conditions on the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	Raymond Sambrotto (sambrott@ldeo.columbia.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study
North Pole Station: A Distributed Long-term Environmental Observatory	James (Jamie) Morison (morison@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2004 - 08/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
Ocean-Ice Interaction Measurements using Autonomous Ocean Flux Buoys in the Arctic Observing System	Tim Stanton (stanton@nps.edu)	02/01/2006 - 01/31/2008	Arctic Observing Network International Polar Year
Pan-Arctic Climate and Ecosystem Response to Historical and Projected Changes in the Seasonality of Sea Ice Melt and Growth	Donald Perovich (donald.k.perovich@erdc.usace.army.mil)	08/01/2009 - 07/31/2012	Arctic System Science Program
Sea Ice Algae, a Major Food Source for Herbivorous Plankton and Benthos in the Eastern Bering Sea	Rolf Gradinger (rgradinger@ims.uaf.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Snow and Ice Processes in the Deposition and Fate of Mercury in the Arctic	Matthew Sturm (SnowHydroAK@gmail.com)	09/01/2004 - 08/31/2008	Study of the Northern Alaska Coastal System
State of the Arctic Sea Ice Cover: An Integrated Seasonal Ice Zone Observing Network (SIZONET)	Hajo Eicken (hajo.eicken@gi.alaska.edu)	01/01/2010 - 12/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
Storm Climate of the Western Arctic and its Impact on Shelf-Basin Exchange	Robert Pickart (rpickart@whoi.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2009	Shelf-Basin Interactions Project III
Stratification on the Bering Shelf and its Consequences for Nutrients and the Ecosystem: The Effects of Ice and Coastal Water Advection	Knut Aagaard (aagaard@apl.washington.edu)	09/15/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
Sunlight and the Arctic Atmosphere-Ice-Ocean System	Donald Perovich (donald.k.perovich@erdc.usace.army.mil)	09/01/2005 - 08/31/2008	Arctic System Science Program Synthesis of Arctic System Science
Sustained Observations of the North Pole Environment to Characterize Ongoing Arctic Change	James (Jamie) Morison (morison@apl.washington.edu)	09/01/2009 - 08/31/2010	Arctic Observing Network
Synthesis of Modes of Ocean-Ice-Atmosphere Covariability in the Arctic System from Multivariate Century-Scale Observations	Mark Serreze (serreze@kryos.colorado.edu)	09/15/2005 - 08/31/2009	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
The Impact of Changes in Arctic Sea Ice on the Marine Planktonic Ecosystem - Synthesis and Modeling of Retrospective and Future	Carin Ashjian (cashjian@whoi.edu)	08/15/2006 - 07/31/2010	Synthesis of Arctic System Science
The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice Extent on Primary Production, Phytoplankton Community Structure, and Export in the Eastern Bering Sea	S. Bradley Moran (moran@gso.url.edu)	09/01/2007 - 08/31/2008	Bering Ecosystem Study
The Impact of Changes in Sea Ice on the Physical Forcings of the Eastern Bering Ecosystem - Retrospective Investigation and Future Projection		08/01/2006 - 07/31/2010	Bering Ecosystem Study Synthesis of Arctic System Science
The Role of Ice Melting in Providing Available Iron to the Surface Water of the Eastern Bering Sea Shelf	Jingfeng Wu (jwu@iarc.uaf.edu)	09/01/2006 - 08/31/2009	Bering Ecosystem Study